Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.
Quotes to Explore
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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People just get kicks out of making other people sad.
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The amygdala plays a crucial role in processing fear, and minus her two amygdalae, S.M. became unflappable. Studies of her are actually a hoot to read, since they basically consist of scientists concocting ever-more-elaborate ways of trying to scare her.
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There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.
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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness.
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Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?
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By the time I came out, that kind of stopped it. The bullying stopped when I claimed myself and proved that I wasn't afraid. A lot of it was when I was hiding when I was younger.
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The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.
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We all need that extra friend outside of our immediate family to talk about that extra stuff you wouldn't normally talk to your parents about.
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When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.
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One of my favorite films is 1994's 'Little Women', with Winona Ryder and Kirsten Dunst.
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I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens.
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Our Keystone legislation received strong bipartisan support in the Senate. Although it didn't receive the 60 votes necessary for passage, 56 senators - a majority - voted in favor of the bill. Despite President Obama's actively lobbying against the bill, we still won the support of 11 Democrats.
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We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.
